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Who is Ada Yonath?
Ada Yonath is a Nobel Laureate and crystallographer known for her groundbreaking research on the structure of ribosomes. She has significantly advanced our understanding of protein biosynthesis. Yonath's work has been pivotal in biochemistry and structural biology, paving the way for new insights into how proteins are produced within cells. Her contributions were recognized with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009, which she shared with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz.